JLA: American Dreams (2nd TPB) [Spoilers]

Includes issues 5-9 from 1997. Well, I'm working my way through these. This one has about three different main storylines (although there's some overlap), most of which are fairly easy for a non-fan to follow. There is, again, a not-in-this-reality story, which I'm not usually that fond of (didn't care for the alternate-future tale in Rock of Ages at all) but this one, apparently an entirely imaginary one, was pretty good. Apart from the outfit Wonder Woman wore in her "imaginary tale":



It's a sort of "Phantom Girl meets Mr. Frederick" thing, and strikes me as remarkably impractical for either archaeological work or kicking butt.

Cool things

The general interaction between the younger/less experienced heroes and the old hands, both the social and the heat-of-battle exchanges. Particularly this panel:

I love the guilty look on Flash's face! And he's been heroing for years, hasn't he? Although I gather that becoming the main Flash is somewhat new, he's not inexperienced. You'd think that that might make a difference in how he relates to the others--as opposed to Green Lantern, who IIRC hadn't had his powers for that long at this point. (It also occurs to me that playing any sort of game requiring hand-eye coordination with the Flash is going to get old pretty fast.)

Green Arrow. Particularly his struggles trying to get Ollie's trick arrows to work!

Things to question

Again, Superman is blue; in the context of this book this seems to be a new thing for him.

Zauriel, the angel--is he part of some already-existing DC...world? mythology?...that I should be aware of, or is he not really worth researching?


Oh yes, and I've figured out how to put pictures into my entries. I think. :)